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You should wake her.
The two of you don't have much time left together before she needs to be on her way again, leaving you alone with your beloved Lilitu and the shadows that haunt you. No one comes here anymore, no one but your little queen.
And she is less and less herself with each visit. You can see it in how she carries herself, how she dresses, how she acts; you can feel it in how thin she is and how she trembles when you hold her, body quivering like a wee frightened kitten in your embrace; you can hear it in the tremulous quaver threading its way through the bluster and bravado of her voice. It reminds you of a perfect blend of the three abusers that have trained her so well to appear impervious to the world around her: hurt others before they can hurt you.
But not with you. Never with you.
Oh, when she first arrives, she is all audacious rage and grandeur, but the moment her poor battered heart realizes she is truly safe within the walls of the Forbidden Fortress, it's as if she becomes another person entirely. This sweet, playful kitten comes out, and your inner dragon wants nothing more than to protect her at all costs for the rest of eternity. You would raze entire kingdoms just to take out a single person who has harmed that fragile, sweet soul she tries so hard to bury behind the Evil Queen.
But she will never let you. And so you impotently rage into the night, destroy vast swathes of the forest surrounding your stronghold, and then painstakingly replant every living thing whose life you ended in your wrathfully wasteful destruction. Because, even if she outwardly says otherwise, the sweet kitten hidden in those dark, soulful eyes is the reason you can no longer take any life that isn't for sustenance or self-defense.
She, of course, and the stirring of what you think will be the first viable egg you've been able to lay in the entirety of your fertile years. She is a powerful little witch; her Light magic is some of the strongest you've ever encountered. If only you could save her from the Dark magic overpowering her…
The sun is starting to set. She always loves to watch the sunset from the uppermost parapet with you, waiting until the moon rises to herald in the velvety silence of night to surround you both. The new moon is in two nights' time. You can fly tonight without detection. Perhaps a long flight will help to ease the tension still plaguing her so. You need her to be fully relaxed, void of the Evil Queen's harsh acidity in order for her to sense what you have been for these last several weeks.
She may have poisoned her own womb, but she healed yours.
Hopefully this revelation will heal her fractured soul, as well.
Your eggling will need both mothers to survive.